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Utah Senate OKs resolution letting Energy Solutions seek permit for nonradioactive landfill after questioning on oversight
Summary
The Utah Senate passed a joint resolution authorizing Energy Solutions to pursue licensing for a nonradioactive, nonhazardous landfill; senators pressed the sponsor about monitoring, blended waste, whether waste would be mostly out of state, and who would pay related regulatory costs.
The Utah Senate on the afternoon calendar passed a joint resolution authorizing Energy Solutions to begin the licensing and permitting process for a class 6 landfill to receive nonradioactive, nonhazardous solid waste from reactor decommissioning and cleanup operations.
Sponsor Senator Sarah Thatcher told the chamber the measure would allow Energy Solutions to apply for a facility that would “receive non radioactive, non hazardous, solid waste from the decommissioning of nuclear power plants” and argued it would reduce inefficiencies and costs associated with currently mixing nonhazardous waste with radioactive or hazardous streams. “Giving them the opportunity and the authority to separately dispose of those things which are…
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